I remember that one... it looks like I shared a similar view in your thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=

I remember that one... it looks like I shared a similar view in your thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10927366). :) I think your hunch is correct — we hover over the links and see it in the query string. There's probably a Chrome extension out there somewhere to strip affiliate links from URLs, but honestly they've never bothered me because they don't detract from my experience.